Frats at Penn: questions

chrisw
Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:35:33 +0000

There are plenty of drugs at many fraternities, but at most fraternities, you won’t find “hard” drugs at all. As for the pledge process, again fraternities differ. Some take pledging very seriously and will demand many hours from you (to the point that you may need to sacrifice leadership positions in other campus groups for that semester); others do not demand that you are completely available at all times during your pledge period. Most fraternities have study hours, where the pledges will spend a few hours in the chapter house doing work. You’ll find that a lot of the brothers will actually tutor pledges in intro courses, so it can be a very nice support system.

Fraternity members’ average GPA is close to non-Greek GPAs, so it really shouldn’t affect academics all that much if you do decide to pledge.